Boat Models, Buoys and Board Games: Reflecting and Reliving Watermen's Work

• Main Author: Johnson, Paula J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle 1998
• Subjects: Smith Island
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/17802

Generations of watermen from Smith Island, Maryland, have spent their lives harvesting the seasonal round of crabs, oysters, and fish from the Chesapeake Bay. Separated from the mainland by twelve miles of open water, islanders traditionally have created their own variety of verbal and material cult...